screenshot

Screenshot module for NodeJS

This module lets you easily use the Snapito APIs in node.js to create screenshots of web pages. You will need an api key that you can fetch here: http://snapito.com/api-doc-paid#apikeygen

Installation

Using npm:

npm install screenshot

You can also clone this repository into your node_modules directory.

Examples

Take a screenshot

var snapito = require('screenshot');
var screenshot = new snapito('yourapikey');
 
screenshot.screenshot('http://www.google.com', 'google.png', {screen: 'desktop'}, function(file){
    if (file) {
        console.log('The file ' + file + ' was written correctly');
    } else {
        console.log('Error');
    }
});

Available methods

screenshot

Take a screenshot

You can pass a list of options to this method to customize the API call to Snapito. Here is a list of them:

• screen: the screen size: web, mobile, desktop (default: desktop)
• type: the type of the screenshot: png, jpeg (default: png)
• size: the size of the screenshot: full (1024x?), lc (1024x768), mc (320x200), sc (80x50) (default: full)
• width: optional. You can provide a custom width (ie: 900)
• height: optional. You can provide a custom height (ie: 200)
• fast: Are you are in a hurry and are willing to sacrifice completeness (like Flash rendering) for speed?. (default: false)
• freshness: How old in seconds the screenshot could be. 0 means indefinetly old (default: 0)

var snapito = require('screenshot');
var screenshot = new snapito('yourapikey');
 
// screenshot.screenshot(url, file, options, callback)
screenshot.screenshot('http://www.google.com', 'google.png', {screen: 'desktop'}, function(file){
    if (file) {
        console.log('The file ' + file + ' was written correctly');
    } else {
        console.log('Error');
    }
});